College Selection Quotes

I didn't decide on what college I was going to go to until the day I had to.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.

I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don't think it has an impact on whether a student chooses a school or a donor gives to a school.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these applicants are from all over the country, and admissions officers need ways to sort through them. The SAT is just one of those things.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley.

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade.

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.